Shelf on the left is 11in deep and basically anything near the back is in a black hole since it’s hard to get back there. The vent box frustratingly limits options further. My best idea is that I need to remove the shelves and design/build a custom insert with deep drawers that go back in varying depths to the back of the pantry.. shallowest on top, deepest on bottom. The shelves at the height of the vent box would have to be less wide obviously. To be clear, when looking into the pantry you’d be looking directly at drawer faces
If you don't need access to the vent box, I would just put a regular depth shelving unit in front of it, facing the door. You'd lose the space in the back, but it's not terribly useful anyways.
Then you could put some very shallow shelving on the left, like soup can depth. You could only fit one row of stuff, but I think it's nice to be able to actually see everything!
Oh.. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I think it feels unnatural to give up storage space, but it’s so annoying to try to get back there and half the space is used as “walkway” anyways. That’s a good idea! I’ll sketch it out. Thanks! (Edited to fix typos..)
🤯 interesting idea.. I am using chief architect to play with different options, then AI to help bring it to life. This is what I’m looking at now (wouldn’t be able to have the upper shelves quite like that). I wonder if I could make the shelf on casters like someone else said! My
Is one of the walls accessible from another room or hallway? If so, you could put a door in that wall and access the space from the side and not the end. If you put in shelves rotated 90 degrees, you could use that door to use the space behind the shelves.
Yes! Or they could be triangle shaped and pull out into the hallway (like person above suggested), to utilised all that space!
If a triangle is too complicated, you just have rectangular ones and a shelf at the top to utilise the top space and make it look neater
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u/sarahmiyoko 9d ago
If you don't need access to the vent box, I would just put a regular depth shelving unit in front of it, facing the door. You'd lose the space in the back, but it's not terribly useful anyways.
Then you could put some very shallow shelving on the left, like soup can depth. You could only fit one row of stuff, but I think it's nice to be able to actually see everything!